Murder Up in North Brooklyn, Down in South
The number of murders in North Brooklyn spiked 34 percent in the first half of the year while just about every other comman center saw declines. There were 59 homicides in the Brooklyn North Command (which includes precincts 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 88, 90, and 94) through June 10 this year, versus…
The number of murders in North Brooklyn spiked 34 percent in the first half of the year while just about every other comman center saw declines. There were 59 homicides in the Brooklyn North Command (which includes precincts 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 88, 90, and 94) through June 10 this year, versus 44 in the same period in 2006 and 36 in 2005. The main cause? According to John Jay College’s Richard Curtis, it’s a rise in “disrespect shootings” by teens, which includes such death-worthy offenses as looking at someone’s girlfriend the wrong way, as someone did around the corner from our house last year. Of course, all parts of North Brooklyn are not created equal. While murders in Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct rose from 2 to 6 in the first half of 2007, Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill have none for the second year running. Street crime in those tony nabes has risen considerably though: Robbery is up 21 percent, assault 12 percent and grand larceny 4 percent this year. None of this is exactly news for real estate brokers to play up.
Surge in Slayings Shocks Brooklyn [NY Post]
And finally you reveal your true agenda. Development.
/\ No where do I say white people don’t have problems. As a Jew whose family got “wasted” by Nazis, I’d say whites have lots of problems. But we’re not talking about Germany. We’re talking about Brooklyn North, which is predomently Black except for us funny people with hats.
Anyway, There are ishloads of talented, successful, wonderful Black people here and around the nation. Almost every African I’ve met has a degree and the amount of Jamaican buisnesses is astounding. So when I hear the same old garbage, I tune out.
I saw this nabe go downhill. Now I’m seeing it go uphill. And it will take all of us up, Black, Jew, whatever, if we allow it.
Yes, the schools are shit.
Yes, racism is rampant.
Yes, the working class is being crushed underfoot.
But that doesn’t change the fact that half these kids get murdered over sneaks or “comments”. That’s what’s at issue.
And as for the gentrification at hand, if we allowed more housing to be built, then the prices would come down and the middle class would come in as well.
If Brooklyn North stayed all Black, then hey, I couldn’t care less. But I do want it to be successful and attract successful people.
Beeotch,
“FYI -Eastern Parkway is In New York. It’s a boulevard, New York is the city. Got that?”
Eastern Parkway AND New York is an intersection.
indeed there are- I just wish that people wouldn’t go out of their way to use metaphors or code words that everyone knows or assumes refers to Black people. The root causes of high crime in certain neighborhoods are economic but some people here seem to think it’s color related. Go outside the city and those same economic problems exist in poor white neighborhoods.
anonymous 1:45am I was responding to the
“serengetti” metaphor posted by another poster “anonymous- 8:52pm”… notice the quotes?
The other poster’s metaphor was frigtening, but I stick to my original comment to it… there are areas of NYC that are heavily crime ridden and dangerous… fact.
can’t spell worth a damn can you? You are the one talking like Black communities have all the problems and none of the solutions and I am telling you you are wrong. If you want to know what life is like in Black community, put your money where yor mouth is and go live in one- talk to your neighbors, frequent their stores, eat dinner with them, go to chruch with them and listine to them when they speak about what they think their problems really are.The day you put your money where yor mouth is and go do that, instead of looking down from your supposed high point and dispensing your wisdom as it were, then you have a right to make pronouncments about communities and people you don’t know. FYI -Eastern Parkway is In New York. It’s a boulevard, New York is the city. Got that?
I’ve done all that and I don’t dream to think I can speak for anyone in the Black community, but I know the problems here are not “your Malcom X “The man is holding me down” garbage ” there are loads of reasons why things as they are. And I’m not making excuses- I’m talking fact. BTW- that comment of yours really points up a lot of ignorance on your part, CS- your knowledge of Malcolm X is about as extensive as your spelling capabilities. For someone advocating staying in school as a fix for Black communities, it’s obvious you left a tad early yourself. But then you did tell us Life was your degree.It shows. And nice riposte by the way- nothing like resorting to name calling when your debating skills have failed.
5.39 – the polish community in 94th precinct is generally low income, but they do value hard work, schooling and marriage. There were no murders in the 94th precinct according to the charts. They teach their kids at home, and the public schools there are good because they reflect the home life of the children who attend them. it doesn’t need the well heeled in the community to do anything. Its the familes of the kids attending the schools that need to set the scene.
….And I never lived in NC either. Been there recently thou.
Eastern Parkway and New York. Beeotch.
/\Oh please, spare me.
Yes, it’s not the communites fault many high schools in NY have barley a 50% graduation rate. It must be “outside forces” like those evil yuppie chicks.
Everything isn’t racism and racism isn’t everything. Some things are quite obvious. Stay in school, don’t beef, and work hard, and you’ll succeed like anyone else. I see plenty of successful people of all colors so spread your Malcom X “The man is holding me down” garbage elsewhere.
Also, it’s not white kids being murdered. “Ohhh! But they do drugs too!”. That’s nice. I smoked pot too whe I was a teenager. Tell me something I don’t know.
Blaming everything but the problem at hand is why these communites are i the state they’re in in the first place.
BTW, if North Carolia is so bad, then why are more Blacks moving here than to NY. I see more oppertunites for Blacks dow south than here, which is a good thing.